The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carnifex \Car"ni*fex\, n. [L., fr. caro, carnis, flesh + facere to make.] (Antiq.) The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rare literary English) an executioner 2 (context rare literary English) a butcher
Wikipedia
Carnifex may refer to:
Carnifex is an American deathcore band from San Diego, California. Formed in 2005, they are currently signed to Nuclear Blast after having been signed to Victory Records and have released six full-length albums and one EP. The name of the band is derived from the , meaning "butcher" or sometimes "executioner".
Usage examples of "carnifex".
The Harlem Hammer, Troll, Carnifex, the Oddity, even that golden asshole Jack Braun.
In the foreground, Carnifex was wrenching an Uzi away from a terrorist, while a pregnant Peregrine raked his face with metal talons.
I hear that Carnifex had blood all over him after his little fracas on Sunday night.
There were bent aces-Bludgeon, Carnifex, maybe the Sleeper if he were far gone in amphetamine psychosis-who were capable of such a deed.
Looking down, he saw Carnifex bull his way toward Mackie, making a visible wake in the crowd.
Someone next to Mackie screamed and pointed, and then everyone was trying to make space around the hunchback as Carnifex shouted and charged.
He mind-raped Carnifex, slicing out the pain and the fear, pumping the adrenaline so high that he could almost feel the ace's heart pounding in his own head.
Billy Ray, assigned to Hartmann's personal security for the convention, glanced over the shoulder of his spotless white Carnifex uniform from the front of the elevator.
Billy Ray, chest puffed out as he stood guard in the hallway in his white Carnifex suit, passed the deliveryman, but with a martial artist's quickness, stepped in front of Jack as he tried to follow.
He could still hear the buzz saw whine of Mackie's hands, tangled with the crowd's screams, as Carnifex plowed into the boy.
Xbalanque saw the security chief, the one they called Carnifex, look in.
From the smile on his face I doubt that Carnifex will be getting any good press in Aces anytime soon.
The rumor is that Carnifex was one of the aces involved, but Billy Ray emphatically denies it.
At any rate she seems firmly convinced that she is in imminent danger of being kidnapped and forcibly returned to her homeland, so except for the official receptions in New Delhi and Bombay, she has remained closely closeted in the various hotels, with Carnifex, Lady Black, and the rest of our security close at hand.
He managed to offend Billy Ray as well by dripping blood on the front of his white Carnifex costume.